Improved baby jumper and walker



- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. OOLDWELL, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED BABY JUMPER AND WALKER.

l Specilication forming pa tof Letters Patent No. 43,972, dated August 30, 1864'.

To @ZZV whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN H. COLDWELL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Baby J umperl and VVallier, and I do hereby declare lthat the followin g is a full, clear, 'and exact description thcreof,.which lwil enable those skilled in the art-to make and use the same, reference being 'hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-v Figure l isl av side sectional View ot' my 1n- 'ventiom taken `in the line ma', Fig.- 2; Fig. 2, aijplan or top view ot', the same.

`jSimilar letters' of retort-)nceo indicate corresponding parts. @i

r`4This invention consists! in attaching a seat to a curved bar which is secured by a pivot in asocket attachedto a base or support, the

seat-bar having Ia spring connected to it and all arranged. in such a manner thattalveryportable baby-jumper is obtained,.and one which may with the greatest facility be'con-l verte'dinto a baby-walker, when required.

represents what maybe tcrmedthe y base ofthe device, the same being composed oi'two curvedbars, t a., connected atxone endendy spreading out from each other towardlthe opposite end, as shown in Fic. 2. This base t may be provided with knobs a', ori casters, which Would be preferable. n l

B is socket, which may be of cast-iron. This socket is firmly bolted to the end of the' base A where the two bars a a are secured together,u andsaid socket is of curved forni, as shown ,learly in Fig. 1." v

is a bar, which is also of curved form, one

e jrt, b, being nearly straight, and the other vpart, b', curved corresponding to the curvature of the socket B. This bar()V is secured by a pivot, c, in lthe upper part of the socket B, the l curved part Zi being within the socket and having ak spiial spring, D,attached to its lower end, said spring-havin g a screw, E, connected -to it which -passes horizontally through the .lower part of the socket B and has a thumbnut, F, on its outer end, as shown clearly in Ffl- 1 To the Outer end ot' the bar. C there is at- 'tached a seat, G, which may bc oi'circular form,

will be given the sea-@the bar Q -.v.ibrating on.

the .pivot c, Thus bytili'is simpl-e arrangement -I obtain. a' fbabyfjumpc'r,which may Ab'e* -constr-uctedl'ttaJ small cost,l a'iidonewh'ich isportla- Lbleor readily moved from `place-to place., and it may bel-.converted into a. baby-walker by .simpl-yunscrewi'ng the nut E, so as tolet down the seat-uiitilthe feet of the child may rest lightlyuponthe floor, and the device, if on casters,.n1ay be readily moved along under the action ot' the feet. l I. claiml as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-f `The base A, provided with the sockctB, in

`'coniibination with thc seaiba-r C and spring D,a'll being arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose'set forth.

v JOHN H. COLDWELL. Witnesses:

K 'WAL h. MONAMAEA, M. M. LiViNesrroN. 

